Defamiliarizing the Korg SQ-1

The Korg SQ-1 is inexpensive, portable, super-useful, and ubiquitous. This video is about doing some different things with it, including using two of them together. Discussion and a bunch of relatively short clips, mostly using the Make Noise 0coast as a sound source - then, at the end of the video, a longer thing with the 0coast and Nano Garden (feel free to skip it - or feel free to skip TO it!). Thanks for watching!
TIMELINE
00:00 SQ-1 + Kastle 1.5, always a nice combo
00:18 Intro. Devolving into comedy.
00:40 Overview of SQ-1. The background music is a SQ-1 sequence controlling a MIDI Plus general midi engine (familiar with these? pretty amazing portable sound module for the $) going through a Korg Monotron.
SINGLE SQ-1
02:50 CLIP 1 - Two MIDI tracks in Ableton Live sending midi out the usb to the SQ-1. One track is continuing on as midi into the 0coast to gate/pitch the main oscillator. The other track is coming out as CV and changing the pitch on the audio frequency LFO (Slope module in cycle mode). Not very well-tuned, tbh. Might be cooler to use the CV as a control signal for something other than pitch. Also, I was just lazy and copied a short clip from the first track to the second - the tracks could be sending two different patterns of any length.
04:00 CLIP 2 - This one uses the 0coast LFO to sync the SQ-1. It can run a LOT faster than the tempo control knob actually allows. Then I'm using the CV from these sequence bursts to control the 0coast pitch.
05:10 CLIP 3 - Using a split audio signal (piano) - one half to sync the SQ-1. Again, bursts of sequence, and in this case I am using the CV to control the filter cutoff (on the Happiness pedal from Dwarfcraft Devices) - which the other half of the audio is going through.
DOUBLE SQ-1
07:00 CLIP 4 - synced sequencers, 4 CV (1 pitch and 3 control) x 8 steps. It's subtle. I'm changing the timbre and envelope, per step, and it has quite a bit of character.
08:00 CLIP 5 - synced sequencers, 2 CV (1 pitch and 1 control) x 16 steps.
08:42 CLIP 6 - syncing to a panning audio click track, 1 CV (pitch) x 32 steps? well, not really. the issue is that when a SQ-1 stops it keeps delivering the voltage, there might be a way to do this as 30 steps, where the 16th step on each sequencer is 0 volts. As it is, I just did the 2 voice thing again, similar to CLIP 1. It doesn't quite work right, but I think it's indicative that it COULD work. Is there a better way?
10:00 CLIP 7 - synced sequencer, 1 CV (pitch) x 16 steps, and then 2 CV (control) x 7 steps. using 7 instead of 8 makes the number of steps in an exact cycle go up to 112. I like the sound on this one a lot. Using slides on parameters other than pitch can give some great sounds on the 0coast. Headphones bring this one out.
11:30 CLIP 8 - Where this all started, my first post on Instagram with 2 SQ-1's. I saw a video by @gemini.horror on there that made me think about getting a second SQ-1. Anyway, I use CV out from the first SQ-1 instead of the sync out signal to control the syncing of the second SQ-1. You can make it erratic. The whole thing is filled in by the Transmisser delay from Earthquaker Devices.
13:05 Outro. Setting up the Ender.
14:35 Ender. This is 2 SQ-1's, the 0coast, and the Folktek Nano Garden in 'long delay' mode. I originally did like 10 minutes of filming/recording to get 2 1-minute shots for Instagram, posted those, and then @bernissimo suggested very kindly that I should do some sort of longer form of it. So, I set it back up and got like 11 minutes of it - with the intent of it being a whole thing. The unique thing about this one is using the controlling SQ-1 in random sequence mode, and then turning gates off to statistically cause freezes/holds. I also use the 0coast 'maths' knob to shift the LFO from sort of bubbly to sort of FM. Lots of fun to explore this setup.
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